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Keylight – A Musical Chrome Experiment
Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Seeing interesting new webapps is always fun, especially if they consist of using the new interactivity of the web in ways I have not yet seen before. Witness Keylight, created by Stockholm-based developer Hakim El Hattab using JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas tag.
By double clicking on different places of Keylight, you create points that generate sounds. The “playhead” then bounces around creating a succession of notes. There are six different levels of tempo you can modify as well in the upper right. This can create a nice little ditty at best or some really terrible dirge depending on where you place the points.
Once you have perfected your masterpiece, you can share the URL with whomever you would like, since the webapp saves it as a permalink you or anyone else can return to later.
Keylight can be hard on the ol’ CPU but that’s because of the way it was coded. According to Hakim, “It does eat up a lot of CPU, mostly because the sound effects are generated/synthesized through code at runtime rather than playing audio files from the server.”
Check out Keylight right here.
Inside Chrome 6: Video
Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
This article on video is part of a series of posts discussing the new features and technology that will come with the official newest release of Chrome browser – Version 6.
The rise of video on the internet is going to really change the web – although that has been said for years, it’s taking advances in broadband and browser technology for it to happen. We’re getting close, and the fact that Google TV is coming later this year with a version of Android and the Chrome browser on top, new technology in Chrome 6 will propel web-based video even further.
Chrome 6 will support the WebM standard, which runs on the recently opened-up video codec called VP8. WebM is supported by Mozilla, Opera and Google among other technology companies. The early beta of Firefox 4 is the first browser to support WebM.
Earlier this year, Google bought On2 Technologies, which owned the patent to VP8. Once the acquisition was made, several open source groups such as the Free Software Foundation asked Google to open up VP8, and they did. The On2 acquisition was big for the development of HTML5 video in newer generation browsers. With WebM, HTML5 video is run through an open standard, a process that in the past has been handled by Flash and a video technology called H.264, which is not open.
So what does this all mean? Improved quality of video as well as overall performance, no matter where you are. Plus, we’ll see more capability to mash-up, modify and generally edit videos in ways we probably have not yet even though of.
Need some proof? Consider this Chrome Experiment called “Destructive Video” by Sean Christmann. Although it uses the Ogg video codec instead (WebM just came out), you are able to break up a clip into pieces whilst the video is play. Also, check out the YouTube mobile site, which is HTML5-based and very snappy. Although the codec used here is H.264, the WebM format will be introduced as mobile devices get WebM, which Android is expected have implemented later on this year.
thechromesource Daily: Links for 7/7/10
Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Someone got $2,000 for discovering a Chrome security flaw, part of a new update to the stable channel yesterday.
The Chrome Experiments site, which is full of interesting new-generation webapps, is now up to one hundred different projects.
The new YouTube Mobile is showing how HTML5 performance on the web will replace native applications.
Now that its plans to purchase ITA Software are out, here is a look at what Google plans to do with the company.
Getting Google out to more people is imperative, so the YouTube Leanback project comes as no shock for attempts to operate on TV.
Chrome Experiments Offers a Glimpse of the Future Browser
Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Just like the developer of Google Gravity, there are those who are well versed in Javascript and HTML 5 that are pretty excited about the prospects of new standards that are coming for web browser technologies. That’s why when I came across Chrome Experiments I was surprised initially that the site was actually owned by Google.
My perception would have been that this type of site would be something done by an ambitious programmer, but in fact Google runs the site and there is a submission process that is required to show off your project on the site. This is a place that shows off some new application concepts that can be run in Chrome browser, or Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame if you wish. Although some of these are a bit basic or rough around the edges, remember this is simply and experimental site that is simply showing off what Chrome was actually created for.
One case in point was Bomomo, which is a new way to create digital art. I opened this project up in a browser window, and in under a minute I was able to create my first work:
Say what you will about my artistic tendencies of lack thereof; the point of this is how cool web technologies are becoming. Those who are not especially technical can handle these type of apps. I am sure that some can relate to this, for example I’m especially impressed with myself and my use of Bomomo since I can barely finger paint. Chrome Experiments has all sorts of browser apps that can be checked out. It’s really about how much time you want to waste during your day looking at this type of stuff.
